Hi, I returned from my vacation just a few weeks ago and my school has picked up and I have little time on my hands for modding now that's happened.

However, I have seen some great general chit-chat here in about modding, and so it got me excited for the next season.

I began by making a few tidbit updates at the start of the (I mean) "crazy" offseason, and only two rookie cyberfaces right before I left. (Ball and Fultz).

I noticed the how I could use someone's else's hair ebo file and have been looking into a way to update it for many players that need them.

We've also got many new jerseys this season, including some Nike embroideries on every team now.

With also Sir S_brat back we can finally enjoy quality work in our game!

And a promising look to NBA Live 18 but disappointing news for us PC gamers, we'll only be stuck to this or an unsupportive 2K next-gen game

But here is what is planned from me:

NBA LIVE 18 PC PROJECT

With the tenth anniversary of the Live 08 PC version coming up, we have not seen any further support from EA, but just modders like us

so I've decided on something that could help us enjoy this game and pomp the vintage-ness of the game after 10 years

Here's what's needed to be done:

CYBERFACES

I know Sir S_brat is busy most of the time and so he shouldn't need the bulk of the load in this mod. All we need are just rookie cyberfaces for this season, and pretty much everything else is covered.

I will post a long-needed updated tutorial soon after this post.

I would also love if any of you could try sampling Live 18 cyberfaces, since they would look great on our players in the game and give it the "Live 18" feel. (You should know what to do once you learn how to sample faces in my tutorial)

New Jerseys

Help is badly needed in this section of this mod. We last were given the treatment by TheRealBadger now known as Murat.

We have to have Utah fixed, plus many of the new Nike logos and new jerseys

If anyone could contribute to this any tips of tricks, that would be great

New Courts

Luckily we've been covered by Magiciangirl06's updates, which are top notch phenomenal!(The format of her updates are usable from Live 2005 all the way to this game!)

These should be easy to make as they just require a basic vector surface and are reflective so exporting it shouldn't be hard after you're done.

Live 18 Feel

This is something new to add. Looking at the Live 14 update and how well it is put together this would be so nice in this type of mod.

A new cover screen, menus, and a custom soundtrack would be amazing.

It would also be nice to have a little play around with the enb settings, which made Live 14 look so good. A modified version would make this be nice, and hopefully resemble the game fully coming back (even to PC!) if EA has a good year.

Also, a new scoreboard would complement it even more.

I was most excited for Live 18's new Pro-Am and I would like to replicate it with some Pro-Am courts/facilities and even a modified roster with the players in the events.

Roster

This is probably the most easiest part to do, and this is the number one soul of this update if it happens. This is why this game is still alive with mods.

you can make new players, do movements and more importantly create rookies. You can also change attributes, which I'm hoping to get full attributes from Live 18 otherwise NBA 2K18, but they don't reflect their changes next to their names until you change a single stat in-game and then put it back to normal and then it won't be 60 OVR, etc.

With all those retirement pools I had to create, I hope many of you guys can find a way and use the dbf editor and manually put these guys in the official retirement pool.

When looking for these "ratings" last year, I copied the almost all the stats off 2KMtCentral, and hopefully this year NBA Live databases once they come out.

SO HOW CAN I HELP?

You're best bet is to respond in this forum what you can do, and I can hopefully let you into this project. First of all, I am not the boss here (Andrew is pretty much for everything here ) and most things can automatically join the update.

Once you've posted try digging around for tutorials for lots of older Live's as these still apply here in this game.

You are FREE to use all my work as long as you credit my work

It is best for you to start by downloading my roster, Ayiep's NBA Live 08 Editor (link in Roster section above), and exploring your files that you've installed.